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Amazon breast pumping class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Fernanda Torres filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com Services LLC.
- Why: Torres claims Amazon flouts federal and California laws requiring companies to provide reasonable accommodations for their breastfeeding workers.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
Amazon systematically fails to provide mandated accommodations for postpartum female employees who have returned to work but must still breastpump in order to feed their babies, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Fernanda Torres claims Amazon ignores federal and California state laws requiring employers to give a postpartum and nursing worker “a reasonable break time to express breast milk after the birth of her child.”
Torres argues Amazon also fails to provide breast pumping employees with a safe, clean, and private lactation room—that is separate from a bathroom—along with, among other things, a refrigerator “suitable for storing milk.”
“Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, and though it undoubtedly has the resources to comply with such regulations, it chooses instead to blatantly flout these rules,” the Amazon class action says.
Torres, a current Amazon employee, wants to represent a California Class of current and former Amazon workers who are or have been lactating new mothers while employed with the company during the past four years.
Torres said she reached out to her supervisors at Amazon on her first day of employment to inform them that she would be in need of lactation accommodations due to her being the mother of a primarily breastfed 5-month-old infant.
Amazon accused of failing to follow through with breastfeeding accommodations
Amazon, Torres argues, initially assured her that she would receive lactation accommodations. However, she claims she “quickly discovered that Amazon failed to provide accommodations to lactating employees.”
Torres claims Amazon is in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act along with several California labor codes. She is demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory relief and compensatory damages for herself and all Class Members.
A separate class action lawsuit was filed against Amazon in June over claims the company knowingly sold defective Play Station 5 consoles to consumers on its online marketplace.
Have you been employed at Amazon while still breastfeeding for your newborn? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiff is represented by Marcus J. Bradley, Kiley L. Grombacher, and Lirit A. King of Bradley/Grombacher, LLP.
The Amazon Breast Pumping Class Action Lawsuit is Torres v. Amazon.com Services LLC, et al., Case No. 5:22-cv-01326, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Please add me I have been having nothing but issues with utilizing the lactation room at my Amazon. I even had them tell me that they would let guys in that room because they can’t assume they’re not lactating after a guy went into the area and just hung out while watching me wash my pump in a room with no camera in it. I don’t feel like my work is taking my complaints seriously!
I’m currently dealing with this in Rialto CA they have I e room and like 6 “lactation pods” all out of service and I asked about them since October of 2022 and they still haven’t done anything about it and trying to pump at work is damn near impossible so many of us have to clock out and pump in our cars it’s so frustrating
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